Micron Sends Email to Professors at the University of Illinois Stating that Micron Would Withhold Funding from the University Because It Remained a Defendant in a Patent Infringement Action Brought by the University
Motion to Exclude Advice of Counsel Granted Where Defendant Sought to Rely on Pre-Investigation Advice on Cease and Desist Letter While Preventing Discovery of Advice
HP’s Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Standing Denied Where Plaintiff Demonstrated It Had Substantial Rights to Patents-in-Suit Even Though GE Had Right to Enforce Patents Against Seventeen Specific Companies, None of Which Were Defendants in the Litigation
Hitachi v. Top Victory: Court Declines to Apply Retroactively AIA’s Prohibition on the Use of an Accused Infringer’s Decision Not to Obtain Advice of Counsel as Evidence of Willful Infringement
Motion for Sanctions Based on Threats of Counsel to Reexamine Patents and to Take Other Action Against Outside Counsel, Although at Best “Silly Posturing and at Worst Unprofessional,” Insufficient to Justify Sanctions Because of First Amendment